Updates

Introduction

Mark your calendar and start making plans to attend the premier
technical conference of the year, the 38th Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital
Communications Conference to be held September 20-22, 2019. in Detroit, MI. The conference location is the Detroit Metro Airport Marriott Hotel

The ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference is an international
forum for radio amateurs to meet, publish their work, and present new
ideas and techniques. Presenters and attendees will have the opportunity
to exchange ideas and learn about recent hardware and software advances,
theories, experimental results, and practical applications.

Call for Papers

Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the ARRL and TAPR
Digital Communications Conference and publication in the
Conference Proceedings. Annual conference proceedings are published by the
ARRL. Presentation at the conference is not required for publication.
Submission of papers are due by July 31st, 2019 and should
be submitted to

General Information

Three-Day Conference

Friday Evening Social. Join others at the conference for a Friday evening social get together.

Saturday Evening Banquet with an invited speaker that concludes with award presentations and prize drawing.

The ever-popular Sunday Seminar that focuses on a topic and provides an in-depth four-hour presentation by an expert in the field.

Technical Sessions

This is a must attend conference for technically inclined amateurs.
Now, more than ever, Amateur Radio needs this great meeting of the minds
to demonstrate a continued need for our current frequency allocations by
pushing forward and documenting our achievements. The ARRL and TAPR
Digital Communications Conference is the best way to record our
accomplishments and challenge each other to do more.

Just review past DCC proceedings to the see
the depth of topics presented since 1981.

Introductory Sessions

The ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference is for all levels
of technical experience, not just for the expert. Not only is the
conference technically stimulating, it is a weekend of fun for all who
have more than a casual interest in any aspect of amateur digital
electronics and communications.

Banquet Speaker

Each year the conferences invites top amateurs in the field to speak.
Past speakers have included Geoff Baehr, N6LXA, Chief Network Officer of
Sun Microsystems, Dale Hatfield, W0IFO, Chief of the FCC's Office of
Engineering and Technology, Yutaka Sakurai, JF1LZQ, Vice President of
Japan's Packet Radio User's Group, Ward Silver, N0AX, and Ken Kaplan,
N0GZ, who wrote the OS/9 operating system.

This year's banquet speaker is:
TBD

Dr. Philip J. Erickson, W1PJE, is an assistant director and head of MIT's Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences group at Haystack Observatory. Since the late 1950s, MIT Haystack in Westford, MA, has used radio science to conduct frontier research into the properties of the near-Earth space environment including the ionosphere, neutral atmosphere, overlying plasmasphere and the magnetosphere that surrounds our planet. He holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and space plasma physics from Cornell and is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the International Radio Science Union. Dr. Erickson is an Extra class ham and member of TAPR, ARRL, RSGB, Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club and the HamSCI initiative. Starting his radio career with a random-length wire and a Hallicrafters SX-110 receiver, he now enjoys 6-meter and HF propagation, QRP, EME, RF design and digital weak signal modes.
Dr. Erickson is the lead principal investigator of a National Science Foundation-sponsored UHF Megawatt class ionospheric radar at MIT Haystack and has authored or co-authored over 75 articles about the ionospheric and magnetospheric phenomena and radio physics.

The topic will be TBD

Sunday Seminar

Each year the conference holds a in-depth four-hour seminar on
Sunday. Past seminars have included such topics as Software Defined
Radios, Spread Spectrum Design and Theory, RD Design and Deployment,
PICmicro MCU design and development, Packet Radio Networks with Millions
or Billions of Stations, and others. Seminars are given by experts in
their field.

This year's Sunday seminar is by TBD

The topic will be: TBD

Demonstration Room

Each year at the DCC a separate (and lockable) room is
provided for people to bring and show off their latest projects. Tables
and power will be provided. Bring your equipment and display for all to
see, learn, and ask questions about. Be sure to bring a small sign and/or
flyer naming and describing your project.

Meals

Meals are not included in the registration. Two lunches and the
banquet are available for purchase at the time of registration. Since
numbers must be provided in advance to the hotel, trying to buy meal
tickets after arrival at the conference does cause difficulties.

Hotel

Conference presentations, meetings, and seminars will be held at the
Detroit Metro Airport Marriott Hotel.

It is highly recommended that you book
your room prior to arriving.

A block of rooms at the special DCC room rate of $106.00
single/double plus applicable taxes.

This special rate is good until August 28, 2019.
after that you will pay the regular room
rate..

To book your room call the
hotel directly (phone number below) and
mention the group code ARRL and TAPR Digital
when making reservations.

OR

Use the link below, click the link, scroll down below the map. Take note of the default dates displayed. You can get the conference rate for any of the days within that range, but be sure to change to the actual dates you'll be staying. Then click "Check Availability".

Details on Call for Papers

Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the ARRL and TAPR
Digital Communications Conference for publication in the Conference Proceedings.

Annual conference proceedings are
published by the ARRL. Presentation at the conference is not required
for publication.

The ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference is an
international forum for radio amateurs to meet, publish their work, and
present new ideas and techniques. Presenters and attendees will have the
opportunity to exchange ideas and learn about recent hardware and
software advances, theories, experimental results, and practical
applications. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Digital voice (D-Star, P25, WinDRM, FDMDV, DRMDV, G4GUO)

Digital satellite communications

Global position system

Precise Timing

Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)

Short messaging (a mode of APRS)

Digital Signal Processing (DSP)

HF digital modes

Internet interoperability with Amateur Radio networks

Spread spectrum

IEEE 802.11 and other Part 15 license-exempt systems adaptable for Amateur Radio

Using TCP/IP networking over Amateur Radio

Mesh and peer to peer wireless networking

Emergency and Homeland Defense backup digital communications in Amateur Radio

Updates on AX.25 and other wireless networking protocols

Topics that advanced the Amateur Radio art

Submission Guide Lines

Anyone interested in digital communications is invited to submit a paper for publication in the Conference Proceedings. Presentation at the Conference is not required for publication. If you know of someone who is doing great things with digital communications, be sure to personally tell them about this!

Papers should be on 8-1/2 X 11 inch paper with the following margins: left and right, 0.75 inch; top, 0.8 inch; and bottom, 1 inch (very important).

Structure of paper should be (see single column example below, two column should follow a similar format):

Title

Author(s) with affiliation

Abstract (200 words or less)

Key words (3-5)

Body

Reference List

Papers can be in one- or two-column format.

Use 12-point Times Roman for the main body of text; do not number pages.

Photos and drawings should have good contrast. Note: a photocopy gives a good indication of print quality.

Electronic submissions can be made in any of the following formats:

Adobe Acrobat PDF;

Microsoft Word

Reference citations and other topics not explicitly discussed in this list should follow a recognized standard format
(
APA
, IEEE, etc).

A biographical page is to be included with the manuscript. It should contain Name, Address, Phone, and E-mail for each author as well as a short descriptive paragraph about the first author. The bio page will be used to contact authors concerning the conference and presentation schedule.

Release form:

A formal release form is not required, but indicate that the paper is being sent for use in the Proceedings of the ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference. You are only giving permission for your paper to be printed in the Proceedings.

Example Single Column Page Layout
Two column would be similar in nature, but with two columns.